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  • Kevin Westfall: Lockheed’s ‘Waterproof’ UAV Built to Fly in Fixed-Wing, Tilt-Rotor Variants
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    Kevin Westfall: Lockheed’s ‘Waterproof’ UAV Built to Fly in Fixed-Wing, Tilt-Rotor Variants

    Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new small unmanned aerial vehicle that the company built to be waterproof and to function with autonomous flight, landing and fail-safe features. “Vector Hawk” weighs four pounds, has a four-inch vertical profile and a software-defined radio that works to help carry out mobile mesh networking tasks, the company said Tuesday. “The Vector […] More

  • Lockheed Integrates New Ground Control Tech With Unmanned Aerial System; Jay McConville Comments
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    Lockheed Integrates New Ground Control Tech With Unmanned Aerial System; Jay McConville Comments

    Lockheed Martin has integrated its Expeditionary Ground Control Station technology with the Fury unmanned aerial system to support communications, processing, payload tasking and other ground control operations. “[We] needed a ground control hardware implementation that was rugged, light-weight, and incredibly powerful,” Jay McConville, director of business development for Lockheed Martin’s Fury UAS, said Tuesday. The xGCS is built with military-rugged and […] More

  • John Heller: PAE-Interserve JV Extends Partnership With UK Defense Infrastructure Agency
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    John Heller: PAE-Interserve JV Extends Partnership With UK Defense Infrastructure Agency

    A joint venture between PAE and construction firm Interserve has won a potential 10-year, $544 million contract to help the U.K.’s defense ministry manage its 469,500-acre National Training Estate and 30 other sites across the country. Landmarc Support Services will also provide rural estate and land management services to support the ministry’s environmental stewardship and conservation efforts, PAE said Monday. […] More

  • Ian Irving: Northrop-Australian University Team Aims to Understand Gov’t UAS Requirements
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    Ian Irving: Northrop-Australian University Team Aims to Understand Gov’t UAS Requirements

    Northrop Grumman has partnered with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in Australia to study airworthiness requirements of unmanned aircraft systems and develop methods to meet those requirements. “As a producer of large-scale unmanned aircraft systems, our goal is not only to provide the aircraft, but also to understand fully the Australian government’s needs to certify them […] More

  • VA, Decision Simulation Extend Training Program Partnership; Bob Yayac Comments
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    VA, Decision Simulation Extend Training Program Partnership; Bob Yayac Comments

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has exercised the first two option years of its five-year enterprise licensing agreement with Decision Simulation under agency’s Simulation, Learning, Education and Research Network program. Decision Simulation and the VA signed the potential $10 million SimLEARN contract in 2012 to connect all VA employees with the simulation training and education program built on […] More

  • IBM Develops Cloud Infrastructure for Malaysian Healthcare Provider
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    IBM Develops Cloud Infrastructure for Malaysian Healthcare Provider

    IBM has built a cloud-based computing infrastructure to house KPJ Healthcare Berhad‘s medical records and administrative data from at least 20 hospitals in Malaysia and five overseas medical facilities. The healthcare provider aims to consolidate and centralize its information technology infrastructure in order to connect with other services across the network, IBM said Monday. “By moving our IT […] More

  • NJVC’s Robert Michalsky: Verizon Data Breach Report to Guide Cyber Risk Management
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    NJVC’s Robert Michalsky: Verizon Data Breach Report to Guide Cyber Risk Management

    As Verizon releases the 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report, NJVC Principal Robert Michalsky notes that 92 percent of the more than 100,000 breaches and security incidents covered in the past decade can be grouped within nine attack patterns. Summarizing all of Verizon’s collected data since 2008 is expected to aid cybersecurity professionals implement smart risk management measures, Michalsky says Tuesday. The report identifies […] More

  • Inmarsat Proposes Free Aircraft Tracking Service to Int’l Civil Aviation Org; Rupert Pearce Comments
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    Inmarsat Proposes Free Aircraft Tracking Service to Int’l Civil Aviation Org; Rupert Pearce Comments

    Inmarsat has offered to provide a free global airline tracking service for all commercial passenger aircraft in a proposal to the International Civil Aviation Organization ahead of an aircraft tracking conference in Montreal scheduled for Monday. “We welcome and strongly support ICAO’s decision to place the delivery of next-generation aviation safety services at the heart of the […] More

  • Kenneth Washington: Lockheed Aims to ‘Sharpen’ Focus on Space Projects in R&D Center Rebrand
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    Kenneth Washington: Lockheed Aims to ‘Sharpen’ Focus on Space Projects in R&D Center Rebrand

    A network of Lockheed Martin research and development centers for space technology projects centered in Palo Alto, Calif. has changed its name to Space Technology Advanced Research and Development Laboratories, or STAR Labs. “The STAR Labs name sharpens our focus on the mission we’ve been proud to pursue for 50 years: shaping the future of our country’s […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Inaugural F-16 Flight for Iraq Air Force Bound Aircraft
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    Lockheed Completes Inaugural F-16 Flight for Iraq Air Force Bound Aircraft

    Lockheed Martin recently flew the first of 36 F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft that the Iraqi air force procured through the Defense Department‘s Foreign Military Sales program. The aerospace company said Wednesday it has sold more than 4,540 F-16 Block 52 multi-role fighter jets, including the recent sale to Iraq. All versions of the aircraft are due for upgrades, […] More

  • Lockheed Helps Nonprofit Add Cyber Standards Into Open Source Platform; Rohan Amin Comments
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    Lockheed Helps Nonprofit Add Cyber Standards Into Open Source Platform; Rohan Amin Comments

    Lockheed Martin has partnered with the Open Information Security Foundation to integrate cybersecurity standards into OISF’s open source intrusion detection and intrusion prevention platform for automated sharing of cyber threat data. The company and organization integrated TAXII, STIX and CybOX standards to the Suricata Engine in order to communicate data on cyber threats between the OISF and a “cyber sensor,” Lockheed said […] More